Every day we’re faced with an onslaught of album announcements so we thought we’d start sharing the soon-to-be-released love by putting together a list of the most notable and exciting album announcements on a weekly basis. This week’s features new tunes from local acts King Gizzard , and Wolf & Cub, as well as some super exciting international releases from the likes of Polica, The Vaccines, MAN MAN, the legend himself, Bob Dylan and more!
Polica
Shulamith
Following up the success of their debut album Give You The Ghost, American pop outfit Poliça are set to drop their sophomore effort.
Having received rave reviews on their debut LP (including from a Tone Deaf reviewer, read it here) the anticipation for their second release is incredibly high.
Last month the band unveiled the graphic music video for the album’s first single “Tiff” which features Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.
You can stream a remix of “Tiff” by The Weeknd and Drake producer Doc McKinney here.
Shulamith is out this 18th October on Pod through Inertia
Tracklisting:
01 Chain My Name
02 Smug
03 Vegas
04 Warrior Lord
05 Very Cruel
06 Torre
07 Trippin
08 Tiff
09 Spilling Lines
10 Matty
11 I Need $
12 So Leave
Nile Rodgers
The Chic Organization Up All Night
Guitar maestro, producer extraordinaire, hippest man on the planet: Nile Rodgers is all these things and more.
As a co-writer and collaborator on Daft Punk’s massive #1 comeback single “Get Lucky” and album Random Access Memories, the Nile Rodgers story goes back to 1976 when he formed The Chic Organization with bass player, Bernard Edwards.
Since that time he has become a one man hit factory. The two disc collection of classics, highlights some of the greatest moments in Rogers’ illustrious career. Get acquainted with his back catalogue in time for Meredith Music Festival!
The Chic Organization Up All Night is out this August 2nd through Warner
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Le Freak CHIC
2. He’s The Greatest Dancer SISTER SLEDGE
3. Upside Down DIANA ROSS
4. Everybody Dance (12” Remix) CHIC
5. We Are Family SISTER SLEDGE
6. Spacer (12” Remix) SHEILA & B. DEVOTION
7. I Want Your Love CHIC
8. Lost In Music SISTER SLEDGE
9. Saturday NORMA JEAN WRIGHT
10. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) CHIC
11. Got To Love Somebody SISTER SLEDGE
12. My Feet Keep Dancing CHIC
CD2
1. Good Times CHIC
2. I’m Coming Out DIANA ROSS
3. Why (12” Remix) CARLY SIMON
4. My Forbidden Lover (12” Remix) CHIC
5. Thinking Of You SISTER SLEDGE
6. I Love My Lady JOHNNY MATHIS
7. Backfired (12” Remix) DEBBIE HARRY
8. Soup For One (12” Remix) CHIC
9. High Society (12” Remix) NORMA JEAN WRIGHT
10. Reach Your Peak (12” Remix) SISTER SLEDGE
11. Your Love Is Good (USA 12” Remix) SHEILA & B. DEVOTION
12. My Old Piano DIANA ROSS
13. Chic Cheer CHIC
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
Float Along – Fill Your Lungs
Having just signed to Dot Dash / Remote Control King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard and their own label Flightless have embarked on a very special partnership.
In June the band premiered the first teaser of their upcoming album in the form of ‘Head On/Pill’, a roaring freakout jam, a foot stomping attack of guitars, reverb and overdubbed sitar.
You can watch the video for ‘Head On/Pill’ here.
Since forming in 2011, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have become an influential figurehead in the new psychedelic-garage punk movement that has been flourishing throughout the world and have played alongside artists as diverse as The Drones and Girl Talk.
Float Along- Fill Your Lungs is out this Sepetmber 27th through Dot Dash/ Rmeote Control
Tracklisting:
1. Head On/Pill
2. I’m Not A Man Unless I Have A Woman
3. God Is Calling Me Back Home
4. 30 Past 7
5. Let Me Mend The Past
6. Mystery Jack
7. Pop In My Step
8. Float Along – Fill Your Lungs
The Vaccines
Melody Calling
The British band have dropped first single from the eponymous upcoming EP Melody Calling which is set for release as a single track on July 26 and as part of the EP on August 9.
Recorded at Eldorado Studios in Burbank, L.A. with producers John Hill (Rihanna, MIA, Santigold) and Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys), the new material has met much acclaim on the band’s live shows.
Their second album, The Vaccines Come Of Age, made U.K. number 1 when released in early September 2012, so it’s about time fans got a taste of something new!
Melody Calling will be releases August 9th through Sony.
Tracklisting:
1. Melody Calling
2. Do You Want A Man?
3. Everybody’s Gonna Let You Down
4. Do You Want A Man? (John Hill & Rich Costey Remix)
Wolf & Cub
Heavy Weight
Four years on from the release of their second album Science & Sorcery Wolf & Cub are returning with a new full-length release.
In 2011 Brock Fitzgerald and Wade Keighran (both formerly of The Scare) joined original Wolf & Cub members Joel Byrne and Joel Carey. The result is a powerful line up which boasts a sense of renewal and vitality.
In 2012 Wolf & Cub previewed their new direction with their single ‘Salao’. Their newest single ‘I Need More’ is a gripping rock song. More urgent-sounding than its psychedelic predecessor, it’s a song that’s dripping with discontent and delivered via a thumping rock beat.
Heavy Weight is out September 13th through MGM.
Tracklisting not yet available.
Man Man
On Oni Pond
The new record features an arresting reconstruction of the Philedelphia band’s visionary sound; stripped to its core and rebuilt as something new and compelling yet still very much MAN MAN.
This marked shift is a direct result of an intensive collaboration between the band’s front man Honus Honus and drummer Pow Pow, who has assumed a new-found prominence in the song writing process, bringing an exhilarating array of new rhythmic ideas to the mix
The compositions were further honed by the band members along with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, First Aid Kit) into a compelling mash-up of Fear Of Music era Talking Heads, classic soul, psychedelia, hip hop and 50s rock and roll.
On Oni Pond will be releases September 13th on Anti Records
Tracklisting:
1. Oni Swan
2. Pink Wonton
3. End Boss
4. Head On
5. King Shiv
6. Loot My Body
7. Deep Cover
8. Pyramids
9. Sparks
10. Paul’s Grotesque
11. Fangs
12. Curtains
13. Born Tight
Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)
The latest addition to the Bootleg Series aims to bring a fresh perspective to one of the artist’s most controversial periods and revealing it to be one of his most wonderfully creative and prolific.
Containing 35 rarities and previously unreleased recordings, Another Self Portrait is available in both a standard two-disc set and in a four-disc deluxe box set.
The unreleased recordings, demos and alternate takes on Another Self Portrait — drawn mainly from the 1970 studio recording sessions that resulted in the official 1970 albums Self Portrait and New Morning albums — shed new light on an essential and pivotal period in the artist’s ongoing musical evolution.
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) will be releases August 30th through Sony.
Tracklisting:
CD 1
1. Went To see The Gypsy (demo)
2. In Search of Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
3. Pretty Saro (unreleased, Self Portrait)
4. Alberta #3 (alternate version, Self Portrait)
5. Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (unreleased, Self Portrait)
6. Annie’s Going To Sing Her Song (unreleased, Self Portrait)
7. Time Passes Slowly #1 (alternate version, New Morning)
8. Only A Hobo (unreleased, Greatest Hits II)
9. Minstrel Boy (unreleased, The Basement Tapes)
10. I Threw It All Away (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
11. Railroad Bill (unreleased, Self Portrait)
12. Thirsty Boots (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13. This Evening So Soon (unreleased, Self Portrait)
14. These Hands (unreleased, Self Portrait)
15. Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
16. House Carpenter (unreleased, Self Portrait)
17. All The Tired Horses (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
CD 2
1. If Not For You (alternate version, New Morning)
2. Wallflower (alternate version, 1971)
3. Wigwam (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
4. Days Of ’49 (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
5. Working On A Guru (unreleased, New Morning)
6. Country Pie (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
7. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
8. Highway 61 (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
9. Copper Kettle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
10. Bring Me A Little Water (unreleased, New Morning)
11. Sign On Your Window (with orchestral overdubs, New Morning)
12. Tattle O’Day (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13. If Dogs Run Free (alternate version, New Morning)
14. New Morning (with horn section overdubs, New Morning)
15. Went To See The Gypsy (alternate version, New Morning)
16. Belle Isle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
17. Time Passes Slowly #2 (alternate version, New Morning)
18. When I Paint My Masterpiece (demo)
